Teaching Strategies With a focus on higher order thinkings skills it’s now necessary to make choices about what you will have students do in order to learn the course content andpractice the goals ..........bloom_revised.png
Student Learning See How People Learn, National Research Council's 1999
Learning Styles
How does this influence teaching?
Your learning styles may be quite different even from a majority of your students. Because each of us knows what works for us, we're prone to selecting teaching strategies that favour our own learning styles. Knowing something about learning styles in general and your own learning styles in particular can help you to plan assignments and activities.
With a focus on higher order thinkings skills it’s now necessary to make choices about what you will have students do in order to learn the course content and practice the goals ..........bloom_revised.png
See How People Learn, National Research Council's 1999
How does this influence teaching?
Your learning styles may be quite different even from a majority of your students. Because each of us knows what works for us, we're prone to selecting teaching strategies that favour our own learning styles.
Knowing something about learning styles in general and your own learning styles in particular can help you to plan assignments and activities.
Go to the learning styles inventory, and take the short survey. Compare your results with others. There is interpretive text and additional information.
Try some others and see if they come out the same.
The two-minute test
Learning Styles Online
There are many digital tools available these days to add in to your strategies e.g. Digital_Blooms.JPG and bloom_digital.png
Exploring teaching strategies:
The jigsaw technique*
The gallery walk example*
Effective discussion*
Concept Mapping*
Using case studies*
Discuss strategies that you have used successfully and review these **free tools and ideas**
For each strategy you choose, identify the opportunities for using various technology tools. You may like to search this site http://isq4.wikispaces.com/Digital+Learning+Object+Libraries for assistance.
**Group 1**......II **Group 2** .......II **Group 3** ....... II **Group 4** ........ II **Group 5**